a new law in the district will allow some bars to stay open up to 4 a.m. monday morning. not everyone thinks that's great idea. fox 5's matt ackland has details. >> reporter: the longer hours will only take place sunday night into monday morning. the bars approved on this list will be authorized to stay open until 4 a.m. it's something council member jim graham worries about. >> the key problem is there's no public transportation. so people who think that they want to go dripping until the later hour are -- drinking until the later hour are going to drive or they have to take a taxi. that's all they've got unless they live in the area. so i think that the congestion, the noise, the adverse spillover effects is likely to increase, maybe not this weekend, but as the program expands. >> reporter: council member graham tried to kill legislation to keep bars open later. he didn't win that fight, but he scored a victory by trimming the late hours to only holiday weekends instead of all weekends. >> this first weekend out of a possible universe of 1,000, there are only 42 that h